Characteristics of the literary hero Petya Trofimov is the former teacher of Ranevskaya’s deceased son, a commoner of 26 or 27 years old.
T. is an eternal student who never finishes the course. Fate throws him from place to place. This hero preaches faith in a better future. To do this, in his opinion, “we must work and help with all our might those who are seeking the truth.”
T. scolds everything that slows down the development of Russia - “dirt, vulgarity, Asianism”, criticizes the Russian intelligentsia, which does not look for anything and does not work. But the hero does not notice that he himself is a bright representative of such an intelligentsia: he only speaks beautifully, without doing anything. A characteristic phrase for T.: “I will reach or show others the way to reach” (to the “highest truth”). T. denies love, considering it something “petty and illusory.” He only urges Anya to believe him, as he anticipates happiness. Ranevskaya reproaches T. for his coldness when he says that it makes no difference whether the estate is sold or not. In general, Ranevskaya does not like the hero, calling him a klutz and a second-grade high school student. At the end of the play, T. is looking for forgotten galoshes, which become a symbol of his worthless, albeit illuminated by beautiful words, life.
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The image and characteristics of Petya Trofimov in the play “The Cherry Orchard” The full name of the hero is Pyotr Sergeevich Trofimov: “...Trofimov Pyotr Sergeevich, student...” Petya Trofimov - student: “...Trofimov Pyotr Sergeevich, student...” Petya Trofimov is the former teacher of Grisha, Ranevskaya's son: "...And Petya Trofimov was Grisha's teacher, he can remind..." "...Petya Trofimov, your former teacher Grisha... Have I really changed that much?.." Petya Trofimov's age - 26-27 years old: "...Are you twenty-six years old or twenty-seven..." "...I'm not yet thirty, am I young?.." Appearance of Petya Trofimov: "...Trofimov enters in a worn student uniform, with glasses..." "...Well, Petya? Why have you looked so ugly? Why have you grown old?.." "...How ugly you have become, Petya, how old you have become!.." "...You were then just a boy, a cute student, and now the hair is not thick, glasses..." "...And you need to do something with the beard so that it grows somehow..." "...Petya, here they are, your galoshes , near the suitcase. (With tears.) And how dirty and old they are..." Petya is called a "shabby gentleman" because of his poverty: "...One woman in the carriage called me this: shabby gentleman..." ...Shabby gentleman!..” Petya Trofimov is an eternal student. He just can’t finish his studies: “...and you’re still a second-grade high school student!..” “...Are you really still a student?..” “...I must be an eternal student...” “...Our eternal student always goes out with young ladies...” “... He will soon be fifty years old, and he is still a student...” Petya has already been expelled from the university 2 times: “... An eternal student! Already twice fired from the university once..." Petya Trofimov is not involved in any serious business: "...only, my dear, you have to study, you have to finish the course. You do nothing, only fate throws you from place to place, it’s so strange... "Petya Trofimov makes a living by translating from foreign languages: "...Yes. Thank you. I received it for the translation. Here they are, in my pocket..." Petya Trofimov is a smart person: "...How smart you are, Petya !..” Petya Trofimov is a good, kind man: “...Have pity on me, good, kind man...” Petya Trofimov has a pure soul: “... Well, Petya... well, a pure soul... I ask for forgiveness... "Petya Trofimov is a modest person. He is afraid to embarrass those around him: "...They sleep in the bathhouse, that's where they live. I'm afraid, they say, to embarrass..." Petya Trofimov is a funny man, an eccentric: "...You're funny!.." "...a funny eccentric , freak..." "...Petya, wait! Funny man, I was joking! Petya!.." "...What an eccentric this Petya..." Petya Trofimov is a philosopher at heart: "...Trofimov. Who knows? And what does it mean to die? Perhaps a person has a hundred senses and with death only five known to us perish, while the remaining ninety-five remain alive. Petya Trofimov knows how to speak beautifully: “...How well you speak!..” Petya Trofimov is an optimist despite the fact that he has already experienced a lot in life: “...I’m not yet thirty, I’m young, I’m still a student, but I have already endured so much! Like winter, I am hungry, sick, anxious, poor, like a beggar, and - wherever fate has driven me, wherever I have been! And yet my soul is always, at every minute, and during the day and at night, was full of inexplicable premonitions. I have a presentiment of happiness, Anya, I already see it..." After the story with the cherry orchard, Petya returns to Moscow to study: "... Yes, I’ll take them to the city, and tomorrow to Moscow... "Petya Trofimov is a proud man: "...Leave it, leave it... Give me at least two hundred thousand, I won’t take it. I am a free man. And everything that you all value so highly and dearly, rich and poor, has not the slightest power, that's like fluff that floats through the air. I can do without you, I can pass by you, I am strong and proud..." Petya is proud that he is poor: "...Yes, I am a shabby gentleman and proud with this!.." Petya strives for the "highest happiness": "...Humanity is moving towards the highest truth, towards the highest happiness that is possible on earth, and I am in the forefront!.." Petya strives for freedom and calls on everyone " be free": "...If you have the keys to the farm, then throw them into the well and leave. Be free like the wind..." Petya Trofimov is friends with Anya Ranevskaya. He propagates to her his views on freedom, happiness, etc.: "... All summer she haunted neither me nor Anya, she was afraid, as if Our romance didn't work out. What does she care? And besides, I didn’t show it, I’m so far from vulgarity. We are above love!.."
Petya: Yes, I’m a shabby gentleman...
Im free person.
A.P. Chekhov. The Cherry Orchard
Students have always been the leading part of society. Because, firstly, these are young people, full of strength, confidence in their rightness and in the possibility of transformation. Secondly, these are studying youth, that is, people who are destined to daily expand their knowledge and come into contact with new things in science, philosophy, and art. All this makes a person think, decide something, constantly move forward and fight against the obsolete and outdated. It is not without reason that students are quite widely represented in Russian literature. This is the nihilist Bazarov, who denied art, love, beauty - “emotion” and believed only in science - “ration”. These are Chernyshevsky’s “new” and “special” people: “reasonable” egoists Lopukhov, Kirsanov, Rakhmetov. This is the conscientious murderer Rodion Raskolnikov, who created his monstrous theory, as if he really responded to Herzen’s call: “Call Rus' to the axe.”
All of them are representatives of the revolutionary democratic youth of the late 50s - mid 60s. Pyotr Sergeevich Trofimov is a representative of the student body of the early 20th century. A young man in a “worn uniform, glasses,” an “eternal student,” as Varya calls him. Twice he was expelled from the university - hardly for academic debt, but rather for participation in some revolutionary circle, for propaganda activities or participation in student demonstrations. “I’m not yet thirty, I’m young, I’m still a student, but I’ve already endured so much!.. wherever fate has driven me, wherever I’ve been!” Almost all of Petya’s life remained “behind the scenes”; apparently, due to censorship reasons, Chekhov could not say much. But there is a lot of what has been written about to judge Petya’s views, opinions, and his activities. Petya is by no means a liberal idle talker, but a man of action (although we do not directly see this in the play), advocating for radical changes. Unlike Ranevskaya, Gaev and others, he knows why he lives and what he will do.
“I must be an eternal student,” says Trofimov. And this means not only that he will be expelled from the university more than once. This means that he will still have a lot to learn. This means that “student” is a kind of title for him, personifying everything that is young, progressive and struggling.
But Ranevskaya is living out the present. She has no future. Together with the garden, she loses the last thing that connects her with the past, the best part of her life. She has no prospects. The only thing that remains for her is to ask Petya: “Have pity on me, good, kind man,” and Trofimov takes pity on this sweet, weak-willed woman who has lost her son, lost her property, and loves, in general, an insignificant person. Petya sympathizes with her, which does not prevent him from telling Ranevskaya: “... there is no turning back, the path is overgrown. Calm down, dear!”
Petya's relationships with other characters are interesting. Petya is smart, understanding, sensitive to the soul of another person, always able to give an accurate assessment of events and people. He gives an apt description of Lopakhin: “... you are a rich man, you will soon be a millionaire. Just as in the sense of metabolism you need a predatory beast that eats everything that comes in its way, so you are needed.”
When leaving, he advises Lopakhin to give up the habit of waving his arms. Only he feels the subtle, gentle soul of the merchant falling asleep over a book, notices his fingers, as tender as those of an artist. Petya comes to Ranevskaya’s estate because of Anya. He lives in a bathhouse, afraid to embarrass the owners. Only deep affection for the girl makes him be here. Otherwise, what could he have in common with the owners of the estate put up for auction? However, Petya claims that they are “above love”, he is angry with Varya, who is watching them: “What does she care? And besides, I didn’t show it, I’m so far from vulgarity.” What is this paradox? No, of course not. In his remarks, he tries to express his protest against love as the personification of “petty,” “ghostly,” “vulgar” feelings and his conviction that a person who has taken the path of struggle must renounce personal happiness (this is already something Bazarovsky).
But still, this is just a touch of youthful maximalism and naivety. And Petya’s feelings are much stronger and deeper than he is trying to prove to himself.
Petya's influence on Anya is undeniable. It is interesting that in conversations with Anya some lecturer notes emerge (probably, he still often had to engage in lecturing activities). It is interesting that Petya is often called a “funny person”, “funny eccentric”, “klutz”. Why? It seems to me that Ranevskaya sometimes, fearing Trofimov’s judgments, seeing that he is right and trying to somehow defend himself, calls him ridiculous, since she simply has no other arguments for the argument. (Here we can somewhere draw an analogy with Chatsky, who was declared crazy from fear that he was right, from powerlessness to resist him.) On the other hand, in order not to make Petya too dry, a correct person, Chekhov may have specifically emphasized his certain naivety , angularity. Or maybe for censorship reasons, so as not to make him a central figure. After all, he and Anya are a living bridge between the past and the future. He is the personification of this incomprehensible future, unknown to him or its author, purified from exploitation and purified by suffering and labor. Off stage, he is apparently not so lonely if he uses “we” instead of “I”. He believes in his star and in the star of his Russia: “Forward! We are moving uncontrollably towards the bright star that burns there in the distance! Forward! Don’t lag behind, friends!” He lives not so much with a real faith in the future as with a dream. And a “beautiful dream” is always unclear. Especially in Russia.
PETYA TROFIMOV
PETYA TROFIMOV is the central character of A.P. Chekhov’s comedy “The Cherry Orchard” (1903). The image of student P.T. connected in the play with the perspective of the future; a premonition of a “new life” and aspiration towards it. The heroes of the comedy call him not by his first name and patronymic, but affectionately and mockingly - Petya. In the common “clumsiness” of this man one can see the “stiffness” of Belyaev (“A Month in the Village” by I.S. Turgenev). In his relationship with Anya, one can recognize the educational rigorism of Zhadov, “raising” Polinka, and Meluzov, “improving” Negina.
“Eternal student”, “shabby gentleman”, P.T. illuminated in the play by the gentle attitude of the characters to his words and actions (“Petya fell down the stairs!”). It suits him to make mistakes, awkward things - falling down the stairs, losing his galoshes. His “incompetence” is reflected both in the passionate statement “We are above love!”, and in the way he consoles Ranevskaya, uttering words that aggravate her grief.
P.T. He reasons a lot, speaks intelligently and passionately, but is nevertheless neither a phrase-monger nor a talker. In his monologue about the “proud man” one hears a noble refutation of the home-grown Nietzscheanism of Gorky’s Satin (“At the Depths”). His statements about the intelligentsia coincide in meaning with Chekhov’s words: “I do not believe in our intelligentsia, hypocritical, hysterical, false.” His advice to Lopakhin “not to wave your arms” has its own historical correctness. In the thoughts of P.T. about the need to “redeeme” the past - “through suffering, extraordinary, continuous labor” echoes of N.G. Chernyshevsky’s calls to “love the future” and “work for it” are heard. P.T. himself ready to “suffer” from poverty, want, persecution. But mental suffering, suffering of consciousness are unknown to him. In this sense, he is truly a “free man”: free from the past, not connected with the cherry orchard by a personal, heartfelt connection. He does not have to cut off the threads of the past, “cut to the quick.” Ranevskaya rightly reprimands him: “You boldly solve all the important issues, but tell me, my dear, is it because you are young, that you have not had time to suffer through any of your questions?”
That is why P.T. evokes the feeling of a “transitional” moment, the ripening of the future in the present. feelings of happiness and completeness of existence: “I have a presentiment of happiness, Anya, I already see it.” In this good-heartedness and infantilism of P.T. lies his “ideological naivety” - the same integral part of Russian life as “epichodism” or the eternal hope that “God will help”, “something else will happen not today or tomorrow...”.
The first performer of the role of P.T. - V.I.Kachalov (1904). Other performers include A.Ya. Tairov (1907), V.S. Zolotukhin (1975). Among foreign performers is J.L. Barro (1954).
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Literary heroes. - Academician. 2009 .
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The character in Chekhov's play, who should awaken Russian minds and become hope for a happy future for Russia, is student Pyotr Trofimov.
The image and characterization of Petya Trofimov in the play “The Cherry Orchard” is the creation of a hero typical of the era, an eternal student, a scientist looking for a path for the whole country, a prototype of revolutionary youth.
Role of the student
A.P. Chekhov carefully writes out the character of Peter. He admits to friends that he is afraid of not being able to show all the versatility of his character. How to hint at the historical roots of the emerging class? The author tries to write in such a way that the reader sees Trofimov’s fate: exile, lack of work, minimum means of living, but great perseverance and optimism. Peter is expelled from the university twice. The play moves through the time period so quickly that it is difficult to show the fate of the future revolutionary in several acts and rare appearances on stage. The brilliant classic managed to give such a description. The reader understands Trofimov, believes him, hopes for his strength.
Peter and Anna Ranevskaya
The two young men have been friends since childhood. Separating for years does not change their relationship to each other. This connection is interesting because it is not love in the usual sense. Anya and Peter deny the possibility of love. A great feeling is low and vulgar for them. Young people are above love. The author's irony is heard in these words, but it is impossible to count how many scientists and ideologists tried to prove the baseness of love. A child's understanding of reality accompanies Peter's conversations about love. The reader and viewer are captivated by the belief in the correctness and sincerity of one’s words. The reader wants to see Anya and Peter together in the future. The girl’s passion should help Peter convey to the people his thoughts about freedom and happiness. Young people are so pure that it is difficult to find other life partners for them.
Peter's dreams
Student Pyotr Sergeevich calls for freedom. In his understanding, freedom is the rejection of usual responsibilities. He offers Varya to throw away the keys to the estate and become free like the wind. Varya throws away the keys, but out of grief. The wind is blowing in the young man’s head, but some of the ideas can lead people out of Russian problems. The situation with the cherry orchard requires a different approach. Simply throwing away the keys does not solve the problems of many family members. Varya, left without a home, is forced to become a housekeeper for someone else’s family. What awaits the girl is not the promised happiness of freedom, but loneliness and poverty.
Peter says that he is moving toward “the highest happiness.” He compares himself to a piece of fluff floating in the air and choosing its own direction. No one has power over him; he is proud and strong because he controls his own destiny. Trofimov is in the forefront of achieving the highest happiness on Earth.
Trofimov's character
The philosopher and scientist is smart and kind. He is unpretentious, so he lives in a bathhouse. The young man’s modesty surprises those around him; he is afraid to embarrass, interfere, or distract him from business. Peter has a pure, honest soul, he is open to others, and is not afraid to speak out and reflect. The student's words are perceived by the listeners. They admire and understand him. Peter says “ok.” He is optimistic about the future and tries to instill hope in Anya’s soul. Peter anticipates improvements, he expects happiness for himself and all people. Peter understands that you cannot be happy alone. He promises a better time for Anya.
By showing the scientist, the author introduces eccentricity into the image. This is typical for Russia. Many perceived the first ideologists as people out of touch with reality. In addressing Peter, the epithet “funny” is often repeated. This means that Peter knows how to joke, do weird things and make you smile. For some, an eccentric is a funny freak. Perhaps Peter does not always understand what is happening correctly, goes deeper into the meaning and begins to look ridiculous.
Eternal student
Trofimov did not have time to complete his studies at the university, one can assume that he suffers for his thoughts and ideas. In the play, the student is a 2nd grade high school student. The guy has no serious matters, he submits to fate, which throws him from side to side. He receives money for transfers. There are few of them, but the young man has no desire to borrow from Lopakhin. Peter is considered smart, no one denies his knowledge in the sciences. The new merchant Lopakhin wonders what Trofimov thinks about him. Why is the opinion of some dropout so important to him? Perhaps a man who considers himself a “scholarly fool” is attracted to a visionary mind. Trofimov is hungry and sick, winter scares the man. He changed many places trying to survive. The eternal student has not lost faith, in addition, he continues to look for like-minded people, spreading freedom-loving thoughts.